Waist-lengthening device.



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ELWIMA DE LANEY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

WAISTWLENGTHENING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 696,804, dated April 1,1902.

Application i.iled May 20,1901.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known thatI, EMMA DE LANEY, a citizen of the United States,residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, haveinvented certainImprovements in Waist -Lengthening Devices, of which the followingis aspecification.

My invention relates to certain improvements in that class of apparelknown as waistlengthene1s,such devices being used to hold down thebodies or waists of dresses to give the pointed effect to such body orwaist at the front of the dress in accordance with the prevailing mode.

My invention is fully illustrated in the accompanying drawings, inwhich- Figure 1 is a View of a body or waist and part of the skirt,showing the latter broken away to illustrate the application of thedevice forming the subject of my invention. Fig. 2 is a front elevationof my improved waist-lengthening device. Fig. 3 is a view in diagramshowing a section of the waist body and skirt and showing an edge viewof my improved device as applied to the dress. Fig. el is a similardiagram view showing the structure drawn together to give the lengthcnedand pointed effect to the dress body or waist, and Fig. 5 is aperspective view illustrating a detail of my invention.

The structure which I have devised for giving dress bodies or waists thepointed and lengthened effect is intended to be worn with some form ofbelt or other similar device to cover the line between the dress bodyand skirt.

In the drawings herewith, 1 represents an ordinary dress body or waist,and 2 an ordinary skirt worn with the same. The skirt is broken away at2a, showing the tail l of the waist and the lower portion of the, corset3. A suitable belt to be fastened at the front is illustrated at 4l.

Adapted to engage the belt 4c is a hooked member 5,1and secured to thelower hook or fastening 6 of the corset is a clamping member 7. Thismember 7 carries at its rear an eye 8, which engages thecorset-fastening 7. The members 5 and 7 are each provided with theapertured portions 9 and 10, and the clamping member is also providedwith the usual notched clamping-plate 11. Connecting these members 5 and7is a strap or band of fabric Serial No. 61,091. (No model.)

12, which is secured at 13 through the apertured portion 10 of themember 7, is passed up through the apertured portionf) of the member 5,and is then brought down through" the member 7, to which it may be heldby means of the clamping-plate 11. This plate when closed down againstthe member 'Kwill hold the strap or band 12 in any predeterminedposition.

In using my improved waist-lengthener the apparel is put on in the usualmanner and the belt loosely buckled in place. It will be noticed thatthe tail o'r lower portion Ia of the dress body or Waist extends somedistance below the normal waist-line. During the dressing operationafter the belt has been fastened, the hooked member 5 has been securedto the same, and the member 7 has been secured to the lower fastening ofthe corset by means of the eye 8, the strap or band 12 be-v ingperfectly loose. The dress body and waist having been secured togetherin the usual manner, it is now desired to draw down the belt in front,so as to give the pointed and lengthened waist effect now in vogue. Todo this, it is only necessary to pull down on the strap or band 12,thereby pulling down the belt 4E toward the lower portion of the corset.When said belt is adjusted in the desired position, the strap or bandmay be held by the clamping-plate 11. This action brings the belt to aposition approximating that shown in Figs. 1 and 4. This action givesplenty of fullness to the dress body or waist, and by bringing the beltdown in front and securely holding it in the lowered position, the dressbody or Waist is brought in sharply at the back of the body, giving thefigure the military carriage so greatly desired.

Instead of engaging the belt by passing over the same, the hooked member5 may be arranged to engage loops at the inner side of the belt, or Imay provide a plate 14 to be carried by the belt, having the struckupengaging portions l5, as shown in Fig. 5.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent- 1. A waist-lengthener consisting of an extensible stripof flexible material, having at each end fastening means, that at theupper end comprising a hook turned outwardly and IOC downwardly toengage a belt, and that at the lower end comprising an engaging eye forthe hook of the corset, and means carried by said flexible strip forshortening the connection between the corset and the belt, substantiallyas described.

2. In a waist-lengthener, the combination of the dress-belt, a hookedmember adapted to engage the same, acorset, aclarnping member carried bythe same, and a flexible connection secured to the clamping member andextending from the same to the hooked member and thence to aclamping-plate carried by the clamping member, said flexible connectionserving to draw said members together, thereby lowering the belt at thefront giving a pointed and lengthened effect to the `dress-body.

3. In a waist-lengthener, the combination of the belt, a hooked membercarried by the same, a corset, a clamping member secured to the same bymeans of an eye carried thereby, and a strap for connecting saidmembers, said strap being secured to the rear of the clamping member,passing up from the same and through the hooked member, and then downthrough the front ofthe clamping member, and means for holding itthereto in any desired position.

4f. In a Waist-lengthener, the combination of a belt, an engaging platecarried thereby, a hooked member secured to said engaging plate, acorset, a fastening for the same, a clamping member carried by saidfastening, and a flexible adjustable strap or band connecting the hookedmember and the clamping member whereby the same may be drawn togetherthereby lowering the belt at the front and giving the dress body orwaist a pointed and lengthened effect.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this speciication in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

EMMA DE LANEY.

Witnesses:

MURRAY C. BOYER, Jos. H. KLEIN.

